George Ronald was founded by David Hofman in 1943, in order to make available a wider range of literature on Bahá'í subjects Under the direction of Marion Hofman, George Ronald published major works by H.M. Balyuzi, Adib Taherzadeh, and Ugo Giachery and greatly expanded its range The publishing of Bahá'í books has greatly expanded since the 1980s, and the variety of books that we publish is widening all the time, but these remain our aims